Help From Home

Make an impact by crafting Help from Home meal bags. These bags, filled with seasonal meals, are perfect to put together remotely at home, with your co-workers, or your local community group.

Learn more about Help from Home bags, or if student service hours are needed, Student Help from Home bags, below.

Assemble bags with birthday favorites or desserts! To donate, please purchase the needed items listed and put them in a gallon-size Ziploc bags. Download a printable flyer here.

Guidelines

  • All food items must have nutrition facts and ingredients on labels
  • Must fit into a gallon-sized Ziploc bag
  • Items must be newly purchased (items past “best by date” will not
    be accepted)
  • Low sodium preferred, fruit in juice or light syrup, please.
  • No glass
  • Peanut-free only

Drop off completed bags in the collection bins outside of our building every Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Reach out to Director of Volunteer Services, Jandery DeLaCruz, at jdelacruz@feedingwestchester.org for more information.

Donated bags will be distributed though our Child Feeding programs. Download a printable flyer here.

Guidelines

  • All food items must have nutrition facts and ingredients on labels
  • Must fit into a gallon-sized Ziploc bag
  • Items must be newly purchased (items past “best by date” will not
    be accepted)
  • Low sodium preferred, fruit in juice or light syrup, please.
  • No glass
  • Peanut-free only

Breakfast Bag

  • Small box of cereal
  • Shelf-stable milk box or juice box
  • Cereal bar

Lunch Bag 

  • Tuna or chicken salad kit
  • Juice box or pouch
  • Fruit roll up or fruit snack

Dinner Bag 

  • Microwaveable ring-top pasta meal cup or microwavable mac and cheese cup
  • Shelf-stable milk box or juice box/pouch
  • Applesauce squeeze pouch or applesauce cup
  • Fruit snack or fruit roll up

Drop off completed bags in the collection bins outside of our building every Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Reach out to Director of Volunteer Services, Jandery DeLaCruz, at jdelacruz@feedingwestchester.org for more information.

This is the perfect student volunteer project, specially designed bags for students who need service hours. Please be sure to email us about the project, including your name and the name of your school/religious institution, and let us know if you need a letter of completion when you drop off your completed bags.

Download a printable flyer here.

Guidelines

  • All food items must have nutrition facts and ingredients on labels
  • Must fit into a gallon-sized Ziploc bag
  • Items must be newly purchased (items past “best by date” will not
    be accepted)
  • Low sodium preferred, fruit in juice or light syrup, please.
  • No glass
  • Peanut-free only

Pasta & Sauce 

  • Box of pasta (1 pound)
  • Can or plastic jar of sauce

Peanut Butter & Jelly 

  • Plastic jar of peanut butter
  • Plastic jar or squeeze bottle of jelly

Hours Earned

  • 15 bags = 2 hours
  • 21-30 bags = 4 hours
  • 31-40 bags = 5 hours
  • 41-55 bags = 8 hours
  • 56-60 bags = 9 hours
  • 61-74 bags = 10 hours
  • 75+ bags = to be determined by Volunteer Services Department

Drop off completed bags in the collection bins outside of our distribution center, 200 Clearbrook Road, Elmsford, NY, every Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Reach out to Director of Volunteer Services, Jandery DeLaCruz, at jdelacruz@feedingwestchester.org for more information.

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